> The first focuses on Wikipedia: > > * Reid Priedhorsky, Jilin Chen, Shyong (Tony) K. Lam, > Kathering Panciera, Loren Terveen, John Riedl. "Creating, > Destroying, and Restoring Value in Wikipedia." To appear in > Proc. GROUP 2007. 10 pages. > > * Link: http://www.cs.umn.edu/~reid/papers/group282-priedhorsky.pdf > > * Abstract: Wikipedia's brilliance and curse is that any user > can edit any of the encyclopedia entries. We introduce the > notion of the impact of an edit, measured by the number of > times the edited version is viewed. Using several datasets, > including recent logs of all article views, we show that an > overwhelming majority of the viewed words were written by > frequent editors and that this majority is increasing. > Similarly, using the same impact measure, we show that the > probability of a typical article view being damaged is small > but increasing, and we present empirically grounded classes > of damage. Finally, we make policy recommendations for > Wikipedia and other wikis in light of these findings.
Really interesting metrics for measuring the actual impact of errors in WikiPedia! And I am looking forward to seeing your GeoWiki talk at WikiSym. Guys, this is only one of many excellent talks that will be given at WikiSym. I invite you all to attend it in Montreal this month: http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/index.html ---- Alain Désilets, National Research Council of Canada Chair, WikiSym 2007 2007 International Symposium on Wikis Wikis at Work in the World: Open, Organic, Participatory Media for the 21st Century http://www.wikisym.org/ws2007/ _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
